There is good news at the Bank Street Theater for undiscovered playwrights struggling to be produced: extensive competition from moldy, unmade film scripts is not something you need worry about. Firedrake Productions has found an unproduced...

HIGHLIGHTS VENICE: TRIBUTE TO HEPBURN -- Katharine Hepburn will be saluted by this summer's Venice International Film Festival with a screening of her 1955 film ''Summertime,'' Agence France-Presse reported yesterday. In the film, directed by...

To the Editor: Patricia Bosworth misstates the circumstances of James Lardner's death in the Spanish Civil War. Although he had first entered Spain as a reporter for The New York Herald Tribune, James subsequently enlisted in the Abraham Lincoln...

December 17, 2000, Sunday

To the Editor: Patricia Bosworth's review of Ring Lardner Jr.'s ''I'd Hate Myself in the Morning'' (Nov. 26) says that Lardner's three brothers, James, David and John, all ''died too young to achieve what their talent promised.'' That may be true...

Ring Lardner Jr., whose satirical screenplays twice won the Academy Award but whose career collapsed in 1947 after he refused to tell Congress if he had ever been a Communist, died on Tuesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 85. Mr. Lardner was...

November 2, 2000, Thursday

Did Roger Clemens throw his fastball at Mike Piazza's head on purpose during the recent subway series? Piazza thinks he did, and others are suspicious. But only Clemens knows for sure. Does it matter? For a reader with limited tolerance for...

July 18, 2000, Tuesday

To the Editor: If Ann Douglas is writing a history of American culture in the cold war period, she should overcome her prejudices and try to understand the vast distinction between having been an American Communist and having been a Soviet spy....